let's get to the bottom of this with our reporter daniel wynter daniel welcome along so why is alston so keen to snuff out from body israel well rob i mean alson has been casting about to bulk up for a while now and mean as you just said that a block to deal with with siemens really angering the e.u. so much they had to intervene there it seems and it's an effort to create a challenger to china see os see which is a better model of a train may come you can see this now combination of. a would get close becoming the 2nd biggest train maker in the world with 15300000000 euros of sales and 2018 not quite enough to beat c r r c n n a 21000000000 euros but much closer after all the threat from this chinese competition is not necessarily just on the global stage but also in europe as well so c.r.c. is to get a foothold in europe now deutsche bank has assessed the potential of of the merger and they say that for alstom their earnings per share could go up by about 17 percent and that's a figure which investors pay close attention to so you know that's the argument that alstom has it wants to

for more on this i'm joined by business reporter daniel wynter has been tracking this story for us daniel 150000000 people that's almost half of the entire u.s. population just tell me why did this one company equifax have all this data in the 1st place well that's what makes this so shocking because they do have a wide range of data on us citizens including names and social security numbers and dates of birth as well and those are important because with that data you could gain access to medical records that say or even to bank accounts now equifax is a credit rating agency a credit history agency so if you want to take out a loan with your bank the new bank might contact them to see if your credit worthy now at the time and 2017 u.s. authorities were of course outraged at this and the c.e.o. richard smith was forced to resign and those u.s. authorities find equifax $700000000.00 a huge amount of course but the announcement today was much more about the actual attackers themselves ok and on that so we know what equifax is doing with all this data what the hikers want to achieve well i me

wynter to find out more. equifax is a credit rating agency a credit history agency so if you want to take out. alone with your bank the new bank might contact them to see if your credit worthy now at the time and 2017 u.s. authorities were of course outraged at this and the c.e.o. richard smith was forced to resign and those u.s. authorities find equifax $700000000.00 a huge amount of course but the announcement today was much more about the actual attackers themselves ok and on that so we know what equifax is doing with all this data what do the hackers want to achieve well i mean a start aside from you know stealing trade secrets and an intellectual property u.s. attorney general william bah so that the aim of the hackers was something quite a bit more mysterious so let's take a listen to him. this data has economic value and these pfaff's can feed china's development of artificial intelligence tools as well as the creation of intelligence targeting packages you know so a seems to be the reason that now app

wynter to find out more. equifax is a credit rating agency a credit history agency so if you want to take out a loan with your bank the new bank might contact them to see if your credit worthy now at the time in 2017 u.s. authorities were of course outraged at this and the c.e.o. richard smith was forced to resign and those u.s. authorities find equifax $700000000.00 a huge amount of course but the announcement today was much more about the actual attackers themselves ok and so we know what equifax is doing with all this data what the hikers want to achieve well i mean a start aside from the you know stealing trade secrets and intellectual property u.s. attorney general william barr so that the aim of the hackers was something quite a bit more mysterious so let's take a listen to him. this data has economic value and these pfaff's can feed china's development of artificial intelligence tools as well as the creation of intelligence targeting packages yes so a on seems to be the reason that now apparently after